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Cellphone Songs Overpriced?
Carl Bialik writes "Sprint's music store, the first major legal music-download service accessible from cellphones, is charging $2.49 per song because the recording industry and the wireless carriers are engaging in 'a dangerous fantasy,' according to the Wall Street Journal. From the article: 'Since people will pay $2.49 to download a snippet of a song, there's no reason they won't pay that much to download the whole thing. It's an enticing prospect, but one based on the idea that ringtones and downloads are similar. They're not; customers don't see them the same way and won't pay the same price for them, and no amount of wishful thinking will make them change their minds.' Last week, Journal tech columnist Walt Mossberg also criticized the pricing: 'For that kind of money, you'd better really, really, really want to download that new Kenny Chesney song, RIGHT NOW, before you can get to a computer.'"
I paid $2 for a scooby doo ringtone.
Only reason is so my phone would be customized to me... now I know it's overpriced... but it was just one ringtone... I might have downloaded 4 in my life.
I'm sure a lot of people are like me... think it's overpriced.. but hell... for a one time fee, I can live with it for my scooby-phone.
Now if you want me to start downloading a lot of music... well even 99 cents is too much... try $.75
I can't see this succeeding
-1 to any scooby disses!
If I can't smoke and swear I'm fucked.
Water too wet?
Microsoft intent on world domination?
Apple makes pretty hardware?
Leeroy Jenkins rules at WoW?
He's asking for negative moderation on a reposting of a highly-moderated post from an earlier thread as a means of Karma-whoring, probably using an alternate account to post the original reposting. Second oldest trick in the book.
Hey circuitous Karma whore, next time, at least take the time to flame a repost that ranks highly on some other Karma-based comment system.
Mod this parent left by three, the parent of this parent needs to be modded clockwise and the parent of the parent of this post's parent needs to have its moderation put through a bitwise XOR with a prime number between 11202 and 13407. Once completed, delete all moderations, all posts, and spend 50 minutes studying dewarneb.
This is gonna crash in flames, but what the hell, I just got over a bout of god alone knows what from a south east asian jungle, and I'm feeling punchy. What sort of a sad act actually pays for music in this day and age? I mean kerrist, wake the fuck up, welcome to the information age, son!
Oho and hey, on a moral level its like Marv said in Sin City, applied to the RIAA et al...
"I like hitmen. No matter what you do to them, you don't feel bad."
What he can't kill, he has sex on. Trent.
...to be able to delete these annoying tones on other people's phones.
from the I-got-ripped-off-at-Great-America-again! dept.
Brand Name Drugs Surprisingly More Expensive Than Generics
from the v1@gr@-isn't-a-generic? dept.
Study Finds Americans Spend Way Too Much Money On Pointless Gadgets
from the look-at-me-I-have-a-clapper dept.
-Rob
Biblical fiscal responsibility
I paid $2 for a silent ringtone. I assigned it to all members of the group "idiots" in my address book, and it's as though they have stopped calling me.
Don't think of it as "Ideology for groupthinkers", think of it as a "beowulf cluster" for opinions...
err... Vibrate mode? although it could be a problem in a crowded elevator :)
well, one change is we have to add BS to get past the filters
And don't forget the karma cap (and "fuzzy" karma display). I used to sit at work for hours practicing my karma-whoring technique. Got up to 75, then they capped it at 50 (I kept my 75, but new positive moderations wouldn't increase it, while occasional negative mods slowly decreased it down to 50).
Of course, karma-whoring is even easier now that subscribers can preview stories.... but with the karma cap, the thrill is gone.
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